Officials at Stanford University submitted a photo of someone on campus wearing a green headband worn by Hamas terrorist fighters to the FBI as the school struggles to reign in anti-Israel protesters camping overnight on school property.
A photo of someone at the encampment wearing a green headband, a face covering and glasses eventually came to the attention of school administrators.
“We find this deeply disturbing, as Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the United States government.
We have not been able to identify the individual but have forwarded the photo to the FBI.”
In a Monday message, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said the student encampment violates polices that prohibit overnight camping on campus.
The university has submitted the names of students caught violating campus policies to the Office of Community Standards (OCS) for disciplinary proceedings, they said.
“Stanford is actively discriminating against Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and anti-Zionist Jewish students using their internal disciplinary process,” they wrote on social media.
The letter, authored by Jewish students on campus and signed by more than 28,000 people, linked to the photo sent to the FBI.
In an effort to control anti-Israel protesters camped out overnight on campus, Stanford administrators sent an image of a student wearing a green headband, akin to that of Hamas terrorist fighters, to the FBI.
In response to Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, anti-Israel students at Stanford University, like those at other universities across the nation, have set up an encampment in the White Plaza area of the northern California campus.
Eventually, school administrators noticed a picture of someone at the encampment with glasses, a green headband, and a face covering.
“A picture that went viral on social media on Wednesday appears to show someone on White Plaza with a green headband that looks like it was worn by Hamas members. We have received numerous expressions of concern about this,” the school said in a statement. “This is extremely concerning to us because the US government has classified Hamas as a terrorist group. Although we are unable to identify the person, we have sent the FBI the photo. “.
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Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said in a message on Monday that the student encampment is against university policies that forbid overnight camping. The university said that in order to initiate disciplinary action, the Office of Community Standards (OCS) has received the names of students who have been found in violation of campus policies.
The way the university handled the student protests has drawn criticism from the protest organizers.
On social media, they claimed that Stanford was actively discriminating against Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and anti-Zionist Jewish students through its internal disciplinary procedures.
In a letter dated Monday, the school administration urged Stanford to follow other universities’ example and remove the protesters in order to demonstrate their commitment to combating antisemitic behavior.
Protesters demonstrating in Seattle-style are warned that they will not be tolerated by the NYPD.
“A significant precedent has been set as other universities nationwide have started detaining and punishing disruptive students and non-students,” the letter stated. “We, the Jewish and non-Jewish communities, demand that Stanford do the same. ****.
More than 28,000 people signed the letter, which was written by Jewish students on campus and connected to the FBI-submitted photo.
The authors stated that it is unacceptable for someone to dress in public as a member of a terrorist organization and that they should be dealt with quickly and severely. “Not doing so creates a dangerous standard because no citizen should have to worry about telling the difference between people who are just dressing like terrorists and actual terrorists who want to seriously hurt us physically. “.
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